Monthly Archives: May 2014


Radu Comsa

Radu Comsa  Large composition with red-2012
Radu Comsa, ‘Large composition with red’ (2012)


Walter Benjamin on Piet Mondriaan

In 1986, Walter Benjamin delivered a lecture on Piet Mondrian at the Marxist Center in Ljubljana. In this lecture, entitled Mondrian 63–96, Benjamin presents several works of the abstract artist ranging in date from 1963 to 1996.


Tina & David Meltzer

Lamentation for Hank Williams

If I can’t finish writing a song in ten minutes then it ain’t worth the finishing,
   said Hank to a reporter.
A camera was busy taking pictures for LIFE magazine.

–I’ll never get out of this world alive,
wrote Hank in a song
sung for millions at The Grand Ole Opry
published by Acuff-Rose Sales Inc.
recorded by MGM records

flat-picking his D-28
backed up by The Drifting Cowboys
night after night & during the days
playing at picnics, rallies
supermarket gala openings

–There’s no dreams but bad ones,
Hank told his wife Audrey
who told her lover who told the doctor
who could not heal him

places no longer places
velocity of faces
& he burned down, died at 29 of an overdose
kindly rocked to sleep in the back seat of his Cadillac
being driven to a concert
New Year’s Day 1953

by Tina & David Meltzer (listen here)


Cory Arcangel – Arnold Schoenberg, Drei Klavierstücke op. 11–I

Cory Arcangel downloaded clips of cats ‘playing’ pianos on YouTube, and edited these clips using a code he wrote to recreate Arnold Schoenberg’s composition, widely considered the first ‘atonal’ work of music.

http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/DreiKlavierstucke


B. Wurtz

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by B. Wurtz


I Need Your Love So Bad

Grandma Mary


Ivars Gravlejs

‘Reconstruction of broken chair’ (2014) by Ivars Gravlejs.

Exhibited together with a video from Ivars Gravlejs’ childhood:


Jorge Pardo

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Jorge Pardo, ‘Me and my mum’ (1991)

A refabrication of Le Corbusier’s classic chair and loveseat using industrial copper tubing, rather than the polished steel tubes that form the core of the original.


Mark Kozelek – Song for My Father

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“My dad and I have had our rough patches. Growing up. I was popping pills and we had our share of scraps, but there are also nice memories — watching ‘Papillon’ on TV for the first time in our Ohio basement, and we caught a lot of catfish on the Little Kanawha River. My dad is also responsible for the most crucial turning point in my life. I was 10 years old, taking guitar lessons from a neighbor and it wasn’t going anywhere. My dad hunted down a real guitar teacher, a guy named Jim Smith, and the rest is history.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/song-for-my-father/


Jan Adriaans – Janske: Guitar

 

In the video “Janske-Guitar”, artist Jan Adriaans returns to his parents’ house and films his mother playing his electric guitar in the attic – the dwelling of his childhood/teenage years.

http://www.janadriaans.com/index.php?/videos/03-janske-guitar/